Schlagwort: Socialism
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Tony Saunois: EZLN meeting hits wrong notes
[Socialism Today, No 12, October 1996, p. 7-8] Thousands of delegates assembled from all over the world in Chiapas this summer to take part in the international conference against neo-liberalism called by Mexico’s Zapatista guerillas (EZLN). The assembly took place at the same time as the leaders of the official Left in Latin America were…
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Phil Hearse: The End of Socialism?
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 14-18] Phil Hearse reviews The Age of Extremes – The Short Twentieth Century, by Eric Hobsbawm, published by Michael Joseph, 1994, price £20. Eric Hobsbawm is Britain’s leading living historian writing from a broadly Marxist perspective. However, as Hobsbawm himself notes, writing about the 20th century is…
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Sam Baskett: Jack London racist?
[Socialism Today, No 13, November 1996, p. 33] Dear Socialism Today, I am grateful to Sam Jackson for his letter, in issue No.11, calling attention to Jack London’s disturbing racism even as he acknowledges London’s significant contribution to socialism. London was indeed so far from being a „perfect‘ socialist, however that may be defined, that…
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Sam Baskett: Jack London’s Call of Socialism
[Socialism Today, No 10, July-August 1996, p. 25-28] Sam Baskett looks at the life and work of Jack London, who died 80 years ago this November. Jack London, (1876-1916) was one of the most widely read and highly-paid American writers of his era, at his commercial peak commanding as much as $75,000 per year. His…
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Christine Thomas: Has there been a ‚Genderquake‘?
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 9-13] After centuries of discrimination and oppression, are women on the verge of gaining real equality? Christine Thomas writes. ‚Is the future female?‘ was the question posed in a recent edition of Panorama, which looked at developments in the educational achievements of girls and boys. Girls, it…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour’s Programme ’82
(Militant International Review, No. 23, October 1982) An indictment of capitalism: but we must draw socialist conclusionsBy Peter Taaffe Labour’s programme 1982 will form the basis for most of the debates and discussions at this year’s Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. In his introduction, Ron Haywood, the retiring General Secretary of the Labour Party, tells…
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Peter Taaffe: Religion or Socialism
(Militant No. 450, 6 April 1979 p. 6) The third, and final, article in the series by Peter Taaffe looks at religion in advanced industrial societies, capitalist and Stalinist. It is not just in the backward countries (dealt with in two previous articles) where attempts at a religious renaissance have been made, but also in…
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Peter Taaffe: Labour and Socialism
(Socialism Today No 12, October 1996) When Labour backbencher Kim Howells called for the ditching of the word ’socialism‘, Tony Blair went onto BBC Radio’s Today programme to back him. Peter Taaffe asks whether Labour still has anything to do with the ‚S‘ word. Just under a year ago we argued „that the Labour Party…